Re: Cities make weather

From: zeb haradon (zebharadon@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 09 2000 - 17:07:29 MDT


>From: phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Cities make weather
>Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:19:10 -0700
>
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000709/sc/exp_manmade_weather_1.html
>
>Cities soak up heat all day, and dump in on the world at night, causing
>thunderstorms where no thunderstorms should be. At least in the case of
>Atlanta.
>

This is really good news for terraforming..
I would want a program which was a model of mars, and would tell me the
global effects of putting a "city" in a certain location. Do you think this
could be why it's NASA doing the study?

>I wonder if this will support my claim that tornadoes skip Chicago.

There was one in Salt Lake City a year ago which came out of nowhere and
went right for the center of the city.

>
>-xx- Damien X-)

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